Ironing-board.



Patented July I7, I900. W. 0. BOWMAN.

IRONING BOARD.

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WITNESSES fl trza. 44 4,1 ATTORNEY.

TTE STATES PATENT Erica.

WILLIAM OVIL BOWMAN, OF FAIRFIELD, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE UNIVERSAL IRONING BOARD COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IRONlNG-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,839, dated July 17, 1900.

Application filed April 2, 1900.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM OvIL Bow- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fairfield, in the county of Solano and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ironing-boards, the object of my invention being to provide a device of this character which can be readily attached to the edge of any table or similar support, which attachment, while very simple and easy, shall yet connect the ironing-board with the edge of the table very firmlyand hold the board very securely against lateral movement, and one, moreover, which shall permit of a numberof boards of different sizes being used in conjunction with the same standard, so that at very slight expense there is provided a complete set of ironing-boards of different sizes for different purposes, all in connection with the same standard.

My invention therefore resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts for the above ends hereinafter fully specified, and particularly pointed outin the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device in position, clamped to an end of a table. Fig. 2 isa perspective view of a set of three boards of different sizes which may be used in conjunc tion with the same standard. Fig. 3 is an under view of one of the boards. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal central section of the same. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a standard, and Fig. 6 is a vertical section through the board, standard, and table near the point of support.

Referring to the drawings, ct represents an ironing-board, having at its inner end I) a central longitudinal slot or recess 0. Said inner end I) is adapted to be passed under the edge (1 of atable or othersimilar support, and in said slot is received the upper end of a standard 9, said upper end being notched in its lower edge, as shown at f, said notched portion resting upon the uppersurface of the edge (1 of said table. Across the board on its under side, in front of the inner end of the Serial No. 11,040. (No model.)

slot 0, is secured a cleat g. Said cleat rests upon the notched portion h in the upper edge ofthe upper end of the standard e. The front edge of the cleat g is made square with the board to fit against the vertical face of the notch h, While the end of the recess 0 is made beveled, as shown at s, to rest upon the upper sloping edge of the standard. The object of providing said cleat g on the under side of the board a is threefold:

First. It prevents the board from warping, to which there is great tendency in an ironing-board on account of the unequal temperature to which the different parts of the board are exposed.

Secondly. It prevents the board splitting in a line with the edge of the slot 0. There is great danger of this on account of the support of the boardbeing wholly underneath the narrow central portion of the board which is in line with said slot, whereas the pressure of-the board is very often on the sides.

Thirdly. The cleat has a central recess 7t, as shown in Fig. 3, which recess fits around the standard e, and thus the cleat serves to hold the board on said standard against side motion. For the same purpose also there are provided on the upper side of the board two cleats Zin line with one another on opposite sides of the slot 0. The inner ends of these cleats abut against the sides of the standard 6, which extend above the board. The sides of the cleats Z will also abut against the edge of the table, and thus furnish additional means for preventing side movement of the board. 7

By giving suitable dimensions to the parts the same standard 6 may be used with a complete set of boards. Thus in Fig. 2 are shown three boards of different sizes for different purposes as, for instance, ironing ladies skirts, childrens skirts, and sleeves of garments; yet any one of these boards may be used with the same standard e, for the width of the slot 0 is the same in all the boards and 5 so is the combined thickness of the cleat g and the inner end I) of the board.

I claim- In an ironing-board, the combination with the standard having notches in its upper and lower edges, of the ironing-board having a l cleats being in position to abut against the longitudinal slot or recess in its inner end, sidesof the standard extending above the and having a cleat secured on its under side board, substantially as described. across the board at the inner end of said slot, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 5 said cleat resting in the notch in the upper hand in the presence of two subscribing wit- I 5 edge of the standard and being centrally renesses.

cessed to fit snugly around the standard, said WILLI AM OVIL BOWMAN board having also cleats secured on its upper Witnesses: surface in line with each other on opposite FRANCIS M. WRIGHT,

to sides of the slot, the inner ends of said latter Z. A. DANIELS. 

